CAPITAL PUNISHMENT related term(s) Courts

Amendments

Courts: establish effective procedures (H.R. 729), H1283 [6FE], H1406, H1409, H1424, H1428, H1430, H1465 [8FE]

Articles and editorials

Condemned to Silence?, S8081 [9JN]

Death Penalty Is Not a Solution, E1585 [2AU]

Death Sentence in Nigeria, H12313 [14NO]

Execution of the Innocent, S18927 [19DE]

Rights Group Says Nigeria Seized 9 To Thwart Protest of Hangings, S17339 [17NO]

Trimming Time on Death Row, S16346 [31OC]

Victims of Vengeance, S12631 [5SE]

What Prosecutors Won't Tell You, E343 [14FE]

Bills and resolutions

AIDS: criminal penalties relative to intentional transmission (see H.R. 630), H537 [23JA]

Constitutional amendments: prohibit (see H.J. Res. 99), H6698 [30JN]

Courts: establish effective procedures (see H.R. 729), H889 [30JA]

———funding for death penalty resource centers (see H.R. 1984), H6697 [30JN]

———include multiple deaths as an aggravating factor in determination of sentencing (see S. 906; H.R. 1811), S8097 [9JN], H5756 [9JN]

Crime: clarify method of execution for Federal prisoners (see H.R. 2359), H9245 [19SE]

———establish penalty relative to murders of State and local correctional officers by prisoners (see H.R. 154), H167 [9JA]

———modify penalty for drug kingpins (see H.R. 147), H167 [9JA]

Nigeria: impose economic sanctions (see S. 1419; H.R. 2697), S17336 [17NO], H13869 [30NO]

Letters

Effective Death Penalty Act: James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor of North Carolina, H1412 [8FE]

Habeas corpus procedures: Dan Morales, Attorney General of Texas, H1431 [8FE]

———several State attorneys general, H1427 [8FE]

Lists

Legal appeals of convicted murderer Kermit Smith, H1412-H1414 [8FE]

Remarks in House

Constitutional amendments: prohibit (H.J. Res. 99), E1386 [30JN]

Courts: appeals process, E1585 [2AU]

———establish effective procedures (H.R. 729), H1160 [3FE], H1326 [7FE], H1377, H1378, H1400-H1434, H1437 [8FE], E307 [9FE], E320 [10FE], E343 [14FE]

———treatment of minors as adults in violent criminal cases, H9508 [27SE]

Crime: clarify method of execution for Federal prisoners (H.R. 2359), H15168 [19DE]

———national policy to control crime and reform court procedures, E617 [16MR]

Nigeria: execution of human rights activists, H12168 [13NO], H12313 [14NO], E2159 [10NO]

Rifkin, Joel: implementation of capital punishment, H15489 [21DE]

Remarks in Senate

Courts: include multiple deaths as an aggravating factor in determination of sentencing (S. 906), S8113 [9JN]

———Mumia Abu-Jamal capital punishment case, S8080 [9JN]

Crime: capital punishment relative to appeals process, S16345-S16347 [31OC]

Imposition, S7877 [7JN], S18927 [19DE]

Law enforcement: habeas corpus reform, S7610 [26MY]

Nigeria: execution of human rights activists, S17046 [15NO], S17199 [16NO]

———impose economic sanctions (S. 1419), S17337-S17339 [17NO]

South Africa: abolition of death penalty, S8957 [22JN]

Reports

Habeas Corpus Reform and the Harris Case, H1427 [8FE]

Reports filed

Effective Death Penalty Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 729) (H. Rept. 104-23), H1460 [8FE]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Representative: Crime Legislation in the 104th Congress, E474 [1MR]

Statements

Reinstatement of the Death Penalty in New York State: Robert Johnson, Bronx, NY, District Attorney, E617 [16MR]

Texts of

H.R. 729, Effective Death Penalty Act, H1403-H1406 [8FE]

S. 906, include multiple deaths as an aggravating factor in determination of sentencing in capital punishment cases, S8114 [9JN]